Rich Manieri
In the wake of every mass killing in this country, politicians do what politicians do, which is to circle their respective wagons and offer solutions that fail to get to the heart of the issue...
“You wanna borrow, you gotta pay the man. Rocky didn’t break Bob’s thumb like Mr. Bob was late on his payments and Gazzo didn’t like it...
I never had the Easter Bunny pegged for a PR flack, but he can now add it to his CV. The funny thing was Biden actually followed the Easter Bunny’s instructions as if it were all perfectly normal. Rep. It was, after all, Easter Sunday...
Sometimes, I catch myself, as I explain to 19 and 20-year-olds what life was like before Al Gore invented the Internet. �� I actually said this. There was no school bus in my neighborhood so I legged it...
The world seemed surprised when Hitler annexed the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Never underestimate the ambitions of an evil tyrant. If so, the U. and its NATO allies are lousy poker players. This is the nature of bullies...
History’s tyrants have at least one thing in common – their willingness to destroy and slaughter anything and anyone who stands in the way of conquest...
The longer President Biden lingers in the vicinity of a live microphone, the higher the probability for mischief and yes, entertainment...
Misspeaking requires some knowledge of what you’re saying. In a particularly divisive, Jan. �� It’s at least the fourth time Biden has unknowingly elevated the vice president. If there is, we must be getting close...
Back by lukewarm demand, for all of you Festivus enthusiasts, it’s time for the annual airing of grievances. I have to get back to training for the feats of strength...
I’ve never been fired from a job, which I’m sure will now trigger calls from a portion of the readership for my immediate ouster. I attribute this largely to my ability to make myself useful. Call it misguided confidence. “I’ll do it!..
I received a letter from prison the other day. Prison – joint, slammer, big house. It has, however, occurred to me, at least based on the email I receive, that some should be...
Our elected representatives in Washington produce bad ideas like cows produce methane...
Full Archive
- 05/26/2022 We need to address the ‘Why?’ in mass shootings
- 05/06/2022 The unfairness of mass student loan forgiveness
- 04/21/2022 These things I saw: A few random observations
- 04/03/2022 ‘What’s wrong with the world?’
- 03/18/2022 History tells us to take tyrants like Putin seriously
- 03/03/2022 Wars and rumors of wars
- 02/10/2022 So much for civility
- 01/13/2022 Does the president really know what he’s saying?
- 12/16/2021 Airing of Grievances: Smollett, Swimmers and Headphones
- 12/02/2021 What, Exactly, Will Get You Fired From CNN?
- 11/18/2021 Bring Your Stories, Hold Your Complaints
- 11/04/2021 A Winning Idea For Americans And Their Dogs
- 10/17/2021 Journalism is Dying By Its Own Hand
- 09/30/2021 The Lie About Border Patrol Agents is Still a Lie
- 09/16/2021 Threats and Insults Won’t Get People Vaccinated
- 09/02/2021 And They Came For the Leprechaun, Too
- 08/20/2021 A COVID Booster? Not So Fast.
- 08/06/2021 The ‘Woke’ Cabal Must Have Missed Super Mario
- 07/23/2021 The Media is Missing the Story on Violent Crime
- 07/08/2021 Welcome to a World Where Ethnicity is Relative
- 06/25/2021 We Can Change the Language of Abortion, But Not the Reality
- 06/10/2021 Jon Rahm Story More Overreaction Than Cautionary Tale
- 05/28/2021 For Parents and Children, it’s the Season of the Long Goodbye
- 05/13/2021 There’s Value in Work, Like It or Not
- 04/30/2021 Your Call Is Not Really Important To Us
- 04/16/2021 Life Comes With More Side Effects Than COVID-19 Vaccine
- 04/02/2021 Journalistic Objectivity Does Matter
- 03/19/2021 What’s News? It Depends On Who You Ask
- 03/05/2021 A Game to Remember and An Even Better Story
- 02/19/2021 Out in the Cold: There But For the Grace of God
- 02/05/2021 Getting Kids Back to School Shouldn’t Be This Difficult
- 01/21/2021 Searching for Unity in a Sea of Exclamation Points
- 01/08/2021 Laying Blame for the Capitol Riots Where it Belongs
- 12/17/2020 Is There a Doctor in the White House?
- 12/04/2020 Lessons From the Inbox on Divisiveness and Unity
- 11/19/2020 The Media Will Miss Trump, and He’ll Miss the Media
- 11/05/2020 Lessons Learned From the 2020 Election
- 10/22/2020 Thanksgiving in California: Take It Outside
- 10/08/2020 Attack Ads An Unfortunate Reflection of Our Discourse
- 09/30/2020 One Debate Down, Two More to Endure
- 09/23/2020 Supreme Court Controversy is a Bipartisan Effort
- 09/10/2020 Masks and Other Academic Adjustments in a COVID-19 World
- 08/27/2020 Trump Needs to Stay on Message. Biden Needs to Stay Quiet.
- 08/13/2020 Sports Have Been Hard To Watch During the Pandemic
- 07/29/2020 Truth Is Relative When It Comes To ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Protests
- 07/16/2020 The Alarming Absence Of Outrage Over Anti-Semitism
- 06/25/2020 Defund Police Movements Miss The Big Picture
- 06/11/2020 Without Empathy, Discussions About Racism And Policing Will Lead Nowhere
- 05/28/2020 If Only We Would Tame Our Tongues
- 05/13/2020 Restarting The Economy Shouldn’t Be A Life Or Death Decision
- 04/30/2020 There’s Room For Compromise, If We Look For It
- 04/16/2020 COVID-19 questions: Where’s the beef and What’s Next?
- 04/02/2020 Surviving Coronavirus At Home With Teenage Triplets
- 03/19/2020 Reassurance in the Midst of Coronavirus Crisis
- 03/05/2020 Biden’s Comeback and Bernie’s Cuba Problem
- 02/20/2020 Impractical Manifestation of a Midlife Crisis
- 02/05/2020 Don’t Know How Your Dog is Feeling? Check His Eyebrows.
- 01/23/2020 A State of Laziness? I Don’t Think So.
- 01/09/2020 Liberals, Where is Your Sense of Humor?
- 12/19/2019 Political Rhetoric Speaks Volumes About Impeachment
- 12/12/2019 For the Love of the Dog
- 12/05/2019 ’Tis the Season for Phony Outrage and Made Up Controversies
- 11/21/2019 Chick-fil-A’s Capitulation is Sad But Not Surprising
- 11/14/2019 Impeachment Hearings are a Lose-Lose Proposition
- 11/07/2019 Biden Will Win Democratic Nomination, If Only By Default
- 10/31/2019 ‘Absolute Love’ Endures, Couple Adopts 61-Year-Old
- 10/17/2019 The Prison Blues Just Aren’t the Same
- 08/28/2019 What the Booing of Andrew Luck Says About Us
- 08/22/2019 The Real-Time Failure of Democratic Socialism
- 08/15/2019 Maybe the Real Fredo Wasn’t So Dumb After All
- 08/08/2019 Self- Examination Would Be a Good Start in Response to Mass Shootings
- 07/24/2019 Ultra-Progressivism Leading Dems Down the ‘Maintenance Hole’
- 07/18/2019 If Only President Trump Would Channel George Costanza
- 07/05/2019 The Dismantling of Joe Biden
- 06/27/2019 It’s Moving Day Again
- 06/12/2019 Magic Mushrooms and Pay Raises
- 05/30/2019 Bill Buckner: One Moment Didn’t Make the Man
- 05/22/2019 For ‘Frankie Smacks’ and the Friends He Lost
- 05/15/2019 Medal of Honor Recipient’s Legacy Must Survive
- 05/08/2019 Breaking News: Legitimate Political Discourse is Dead
- 05/02/2019 Not So Fast on Infrastructure Improvement
- 03/14/2019 College Cheating Scandal Reveals Bad Parenting at its Worst
- 02/28/2019 The Politics of Infanticide
- 02/21/2019 Fake Hate Crimes, False Narratives
- 02/13/2019 Anti-Vaxxers are a Threat to All of Us
- 02/06/2019 No Apology Necessary From Trump Nominee
- 01/30/2019 Republicans and Democrats Really Do Agree on Immigration
- 01/23/2019 Journalism’s Credibility Takes Yet Another Hit
- 01/16/2019 These Are the Salad Days
- 01/09/2019 Guess Who’s the Socialist
- 12/19/2018 The Airing of Grievances
- 12/12/2018 Why the Pushback Against Christmas?
- 12/06/2018 The Media’s Revisionist History of Republican Presidents
- 11/29/2018 ‘Bah Humbug’ to Social Media Trolls
- 11/21/2018 From the Ashes, a Lesson in Love and Empathy
- 11/14/2018 CNN vs President Trump: They’re Both Wrong
- 11/07/2018 Another Election Has Come and Gone. Now What?
- 10/31/2018 Maybe We Should Try Listening, For a Change
- 10/25/2018 Democrats Rediscover a Losing Formula
- 10/18/2018 A Civics Test to Graduate High School? Absolutely
- 10/10/2018 The Selfie Destruction of Our Country
- 10/03/2018 The Democrats’ Real Problem With Kavanaugh
- 09/26/2018 So Much For ‘Getting It Right’
- 09/19/2018 Of Course Democrats Are Playing Politics on Kavanaugh Nomination
Rich Manieri is a journalism professor at Asbury University in Kentucky. He spent some 30 years as a television and print journalist, speech writer, government spokesman, communications consultant, essayist and columnist. Rich’s first book, “We Burn on Friday: A Memoir of My Father and Me,” was published in 2015. He has won both Associated Press and Emmy awards for television news reporting as well as a Keystone Award in Pennsylvania for column writing.
Column Archive
- 05/26/2022 We need to address the ‘Why?’ in mass shootings
- 05/06/2022 The unfairness of mass student loan forgiveness
- 04/21/2022 These things I saw: A few random observations
- 04/03/2022 ‘What’s wrong with the world?’
- 03/18/2022 History tells us to take tyrants like Putin seriously
- 03/03/2022 Wars and rumors of wars
- 02/10/2022 So much for civility
- 01/13/2022 Does the president really know what he’s saying?
- 12/16/2021 Airing of Grievances: Smollett, Swimmers and Headphones
- 12/02/2021 What, Exactly, Will Get You Fired From CNN?
- 11/18/2021 Bring Your Stories, Hold Your Complaints
- 11/04/2021 A Winning Idea For Americans And Their Dogs
- 10/17/2021 Journalism is Dying By Its Own Hand
- 09/30/2021 The Lie About Border Patrol Agents is Still a Lie
- 09/16/2021 Threats and Insults Won’t Get People Vaccinated
- 09/02/2021 And They Came For the Leprechaun, Too
- 08/20/2021 A COVID Booster? Not So Fast.
- 08/06/2021 The ‘Woke’ Cabal Must Have Missed Super Mario
- 07/23/2021 The Media is Missing the Story on Violent Crime
- 07/08/2021 Welcome to a World Where Ethnicity is Relative